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In 2010 I ran an unsuccessful campaign for the United States Congress, but I'm still posting blogs that I believe express an opinion that most other people miss, and that I also believe can make America great again and cast off the yoke of liberal/progressive control that is currently in place.

Saturday, April 22, 2017

Geraldo Rivera Is Confused About Sanctuary Cities

Saturday
morning on the Fox News Channel Geraldo Rivera made some mistaken, or
maybe his remarks were instead misleading, statements; with him one
can not be certain if he’s serious of not. He said that sanctuary
cities like Chicago should not be blamed for their high murder rate
because the murders are of a domestic, gang-related nature, and are
not mainly caused by illegal aliens living there. I am unable to
recall anyone blaming the sky-rocketing murder rate in Chicago on
illegal aliens; we blame the high murder rate on the leftist Democrat
Mayor of Chicago. But Geraldo appears to be trying to divert
attention from the sanctuary city idiocy by removing a high murder
rate from the mix, and this misrepresentation of the facts will not
fly.

Even
if one sets aside the horrific 2015 murder of Kate Steinle by an
illegal alien in San Francisco, the very idea of allowing illegals to
be in this country and to live here at public expense is a crime in
itself and is a criminal activity. Then add into the situation that
fact that the mayors of these criminal cities will not coordinate
with the federal government to get rid of illegals residing in their
cities, and you have an untenable situation that must be corrected.

One
can recall a couple of years ago that the Obama administration sued
the state of Arizona for trying to set up its own immigration
controls on its border with Mexico and halt, or at least attempt to
control, the influx of illegals crossing the Arizona/Mexico border
each day. Obama won the case in the Supreme Court by arguing that
only the federal government has the constitutional authority to
control the borders of the nation and that states must be prohibited
from doing so. Having won this argument, Obama then sat back, played
another round of golf and allowed the same influx of illegals to
illegally enter the United States, exactly what Arizona had attempted
to halt by doing its own border monitoring. Under Obama, the federal
government ignored its constitutional obligation to protect the
nation’s borders and its citizens, and in fact went so far as to
advertise for more illegals to cross into America in order to beef up
the Democrat voter roles.

The
constitution does not suggest that maybe the federal
government should perhaps control the borders, it made it the
obligation of the federal government to do so, and Obama was in
violation of the constitution by halting Arizona from protecting its
citizens, and then doing nothing at the federal level to protect
America.

One
murder of an American by someone who should not be here is way too
many, and that’s why sanctuary cities are criminal entities that
must be ended, and liberal mayors and governors who support such a
situation be damned. Trump’s Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, said
he will withhold federal funds from any city in violation of
immigration laws, and that’s exactly what must happen. And if that
doesn’t get their attention, then put the fools in federal prison.